On the recordOctober 30, 2018
We have about 5,000. We'll go up to 10,000 and 15,000 military personnel on top of border patrol, ICE and everybody else at the border. Nobody is coming in.
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transcripts.cnn.comDonald Trump: “We have about 5,000. We'll go up to 10,000 and 15,000 military personnel on top of border patrol, ICE and everybody else…”
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Trump discusses the number of military personnel he plans to send to the border in response to the migrant caravan.
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